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by corresation 12y ago
I'm currently pushing 13 seconds a page load (for just the HTML), clearly caught in a super-clever (albeit comically cowardly and childish) slowbanning. I've said absolutely nothing controversial or mean-spirited, aside from perha
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by corresation 12y ago
Why? Ignoring questions about the honesty or self-serving nature of the invisible-hand moderation, HN's rise came at the expense of a number of other sites, including reddit's /r/programming, Slashdot, dzone, etc. The dr
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by corresation 12y ago
Log out and you'll be surprised how speedy the site is. Log in...12 seconds to return 6KB of data, at least in my case. Have I been capriciously slowbanned to encourage me to lose interest and get lost, or is the process of counting up
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by corresation 12y ago
Sites like HN can't escape Parkinson's law of triviality: Complex or mixed-conclusion content will naturally get drown out by easily "understood" (at least in the perception of the reader) and debated material. Titles pl
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by corresation 12y ago
This goes against commonsense, why was this done? Almost certainly because they knew about their own enormous liability. They settled with a family for this issue in February of 2006, and not long after did the engineering change, albeit
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Not a single person said that it has no value. But the site does an arguably poor job communicating what it is about (to those who say "watch the video", understand that many people consider videos a last resort. There has to be a
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IMO Facebook should have never offered any free reach for businesses It has always confused me that Facebook has done so little to monetize businesses, many of whom now list their Facebook pages in major advertising campaigns rather than
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While their website is an anti-pattern, I do have to applaud one pattern that paint.net was early (if not first) to adopt: Asking you about updates when you exit the program rather than when you first open it. Contrast this with Notepad++
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by corresation 12y ago
Add that to Julie Zhuo (Designer @ Facebook) doing the same thing just a few hours ago and it makes for a very curious confluence, in both cases diminishing the immediate credibility of the articles.
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Is this actually possible? You couldn't change the original transaction without the private key, nor can you spend the results of it until it is in an accepted block chain block, no? Am I wrong?
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If you don't serve the market, there are a lot of people who very quickly will. I have mixed feelings about this. While they may have mulled over this game for a year, it remains a relatively simple idea and execution (compared to mo
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by corresation 12y ago
The argument is that a better user experience was abandoned in favor of a worse user experience that generated more impressions per user. The argument is that an experience that Dustin Curtis liked better was a better experience. Maybe th
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This sounds contrived. Being the skeptical sort we should all be, there is no reason to believe the sources (if you believe they exist) regarding supposed cynical reasons they didn't proceed with a considered UI. Maybe Facebook found t
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by corresation 12y ago
When Google originally started doing this it was essentially to open people's eyes to the capabilities of HTML. Lately, however, it has just been excessive. In this case it isn't even particularly clever: Click on stuff and stuff
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by corresation 12y ago
A rule that apparently was seldom written down given that it was highly illegal.
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by corresation 12y ago
Job's simply asked that Google's recruitment department please stop. By emailing the CEO of Google. Jobs knew exactly what he was doing, and what the outcome would be. And boy, what an absolutely embarrassing response by Google.
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by corresation 12y ago
This is a growing anti-web trend -- the tendency of web properties to only self-link. I assume someone somewhere has actual metrics justifying this, but it's the antithesis of what the web is about, but it's exactly why the only l
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by corresation 12y ago
Given the facts of this case thus far, you might be overdoing it with the outrage. Of course details of the lives of the pilots are being poured over given that every indication includes one of their involvement.
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I don't think anyone thinks the plane blew up. At some point it likely just ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean. The simplest possible solution with the facts that we have now is that one of the pilots (one of the pilots wife an
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by corresation 12y ago
>SVG is based on XML, I don't think I've ever seen XML and 'astonishingly concise' in the same sentence before, congratulations for being the first. The rudiments of the vector description is extremely concise. That i
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by corresation 12y ago
Was the idea really validated? Is their business model "get on the front page of HN daily"? If not, absolutely nothing was validated.
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by corresation 12y ago
SVG is astonishingly concise. Most renderers are remarkably efficiently. It is very gzippable. Your criticisms are based upon nothing.
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by corresation 12y ago
Piece of unsolicited advice - Stop declaring everything a strawman or propaganda. It does not strengthen your argument. The situations we are talking about are actually more akin to professional athletes or sought after writers -- employers
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by corresation 12y ago
But unions almost always concern themselves with such things. I may be attacking a "strawman" (ergo, how virtually every union on the planet operates), but humorously the salvation is just as much of a strawman, no?
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I'm not "repeating" anyone's propaganda. I've worked in union situations before. I understand the ramifications of unions. As someone who tends to do quite well in this field, unions would be very deleterious for me
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"this will strengthen the understanding that this type of stuff is exactly why you want strong unions" Unions are fundamentally socialist. That isn't using socialism as a bad word, but as a factual description of the fundamen
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A cartel are competitors who privately agree to essentially not compete, and this can include on the production side (which in this case are tech workers). The unavoidable, and intentional impact of that is wage suppression. This isn't
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As mkohlmyr mentions, it is unfortunate that MongoDB is offhandedly dismissed, however by the second paragraph of the linked article you have to appreciate how such hostility comes about. But what is it that SQL databases could not solve w
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by corresation 12y ago
Karma/Comment is a poor metric, I think, because it encourages the strike attack comment style. If I post something and people post counterpoints or questions or concerns, I will respond. But the truth is that from a pure karma average
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by corresation 12y ago
Alternately, he is lying. It sounds crass to outright say such a thing, but it is suspiciously convenient that Arrington draws attention to himself under the pretext of having explosive information relating to a current hot story, all with

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